Well, it’s time to move on to some more serious stuff. Traffic. I moved to a small town to avoid traffic…oh yeah, I’m not talking about not vehicle traffic, PEOPLE traffic. And not crowds of people around you physically. I am talking the millions of people you don’t want to avoid. These are the ones you want to come to your website. Other than product creation the other thing I really suck at is traffic. I can build a reasonable site, get most of the stuff right but then the big day. I write a couple articles and no one shows up, or I get 10 people to sign up. That is another reason I find myself in Alex’s class; I flunked traffic. Somehow I just can’t seem to get it right. I know it’s a combination of article marketing, blogging, and social bookmarking, but I just can’t seem to get it right. As far as PPC (pay per click) I tried that once and lost $1500.00. Just could not sell enough copies of the e book to cover the costs.
Traffic is the lifeblood of your site, if you ever hope to make anything on the Internet. “The money is in the list,” may be (and is) true, but you can’t build the list unless you generate traffic to your site. So that is my weakest link. (True Confession time) I have built a few websites in the past, but they are just sitting there because they lack traffic, seems to be the thing some past mentors left out or did not go into enough detail, or I missed itl. (Oh, BTW I also suck at sales copy). So my hope is that as I follow along Alex Jeffreys traffic modules I may finally get it right. Hopefully in a few months I will be standing with the likes of Garry Parkes, Gary Simpson, Paula, and Alex and others from the class, because I finally got it right. (Even if I am weird)
Take care until the next post, I will reveal how I get my header graphic.
Gene
